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Some New Pictures to Look At

DAVE ID — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:31:50 +0000

These are from Philly though on my last day on Kooza before the teardown, I haven't gotten around to taking pictures in Chicago yet but I had a few unprocessed ones from my blitzkrieg in Philly's historic 9th Street Italian Market.

I'm working with new ideas of post-processing in Photoshop to liven up the colors using overlayed colors and some of the results come out pretty good but I'm still working on it.

You can see the fuller Philly set on Flickr now with added Market Street pictures by Clicking Here

Back from the Dead

Arjun — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:40:29 +0000

First post. How nice. This place was dead for a year, exactly one to be precise (and it looked very different too) - I last posted here in June 2007 which was incidentally the first post too. The post, if you're curious was a link to this viral video and has been deleted as I'd like to make a new beginning.

I have in the past started numerous blogs with varied intentions but have failed to maintain them, eventually closing or abandoning them. One such example is my photoblog on aminus3 which has been inactive for quite a while although I haven't yet given up on it. A lack of time and patience are the excuses (genuine excuses) I'd like to use. And like always, I hope this blog doesn't die a premature death.

A daily photoblog

adapanich — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:58:38 +0000

If you're looking for a daily photoblog then I think aminus3 is just for you. I have activated my account and I'm very satisfied. I find it nice, well done and functional. A great community, too.

Finally Some Pictures from Philly

DAVE ID — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:57:48 +0000

Well I finally got around to processing some pictures from Philly. Still have others to process.

CLICK HERE for the Philly Set

View Large On Black

Gaby — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:06:09 +0000

I discovered Aminus3 today. Flickr is great but I'm fed up with it showing such small images. Now that I save most of my photos in all their memory-consuming high-res glory, it seems a shame to let them go to waste and display measly compressed versions that are only 500 pixels wide.

The idea is that you post one photo every day, photoblog-style. I'm using this one as a portfolio of my favourite shots from the four months I've been in Melbourne. There's only 48 up so far, but rest assured I'll upload more when the pace at work starts to wind down. Which will, I imagine, be half an hour before I leave next Monday.

I like how it displays the EXIF data next to the image, despite randomly adding an extra 19-35mm to the focal length. Plus there's no clutter, no ads and no sad community things. The only objections I have are the sicky colour scheme (pink - why?) and the fact you can't disable comments. Oh, and you can only upload one image at a time. Still, it's free, easy to use and visually 'zen', so compared to the other options out there, it's the winner by far.

San Antonio... just not enough pictures

DAVE ID — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:43:43 +0000

To fully depict how pretty and fun this town is. Though it has this appallingly poor area that I was discouraged to go into unless I just wanted to get dismembered. But this time around I found this treasure I was never told about. San Antonio has this Riverwalk that gives it this air of Venice but Texas style. I was just walking along looking for a store to fuel up on Rockstar or Redbull or something on my day off from Clown Support. I come upon a bridge and expect to see a river, just not THIS:

CLICK HERE to see the small set. The pictures were taken on a rainy day so most of the images had poor lighting and only a few were to my taste.

Pictures from my Shreveport, LA Trip

DAVE ID — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:59:21 +0000

Once again while at work on Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco, I was loged in a classy hotel where I was eating some expensive food, living in the lap of luxury in Shreveport, Louisiana. A rich gambling town, sort of a mini-Vegas with ambitions of opulence and decadence. Not 200 feet from my hotel was abject and desperate poverty that has no reason to be in such a rich city.

CLICK HERE to see the SET. Not many pictures, because of my usual short trips but I think they are of good quality.

Pictures from Little Rock

DAVE ID — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:11:16 +0000

I finally got around to processing and uploading some pictures from my trip to Little Rock Arkansas while working on Saltimbanco. I was attracted to the extreme poverty - to me anyway, American poverty, makes Canadian poverty look like the middle class though I wouldn't compare homelessness in the cold Canadian winter with any other civilized country

To see the set CLICK HERE.

Dew on tiny creatures in the night

jampy — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:06:07 +0000

Con questa foto faccio le mie scuse a chi si aspettava più assiduità nel posting su aminus3.

I love math.

PJ — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:55:22 +0000

Check out my blipfoto:
http://blipfoto.com/seelikepj

and my Aminus3:
http://seelikepj.aminus3.com/

My pages are very noobish compared to the other users.
But, that's okay with me!

So, today, I woke up at 10:30.

Yikes!

I stayed up pretty late
trying to finish Paolo's hospital visit entry.

It's pretty husky.

Well, actually, I woke up at 8:45.
I had another breakfast date
with tony and carlos ::wink::.

NICE!!

But, when my alarm went off,
my throat was a bit scratchy.
I wasn't feeling up to it.

I went back to sleep and tony called me at 9:00.
I told him i wasn't coming along anymore.
He told me he would be visiting later on.

I went back to sleep.

The sound of James Brown's voice woke up again at 10:30.
Tony called to say he and carlos would be coming over now.
That's when i got out of bed.

They came over and we talked a bit.
A bit about college,
scholarships,
starcraft2,
blogging,
and all that stuff.

Gooooood Times.

After they left, I had to find out about college bills.
That's actually my hobby.
I read about college billing.

But not really.

I do not enjoy looking at college billing stuff.

I'm trying to find out my bill for the spring semester.
I've found the bill on the UMBC site,
but not on the e-billing site.

It's annoying dudes!
I tried to call the billing office,
but they did not pick up any of my three calls.

I also have to try to get some scholarships.
I need money.

I've been looking at those scholarship books,
but today Tony told me about scholarship.com
and it's great!

After giving some info to the site,
it found a bunch of scholarships i can apply for.
Well, actually i can't yet.
because my GPA kinda sucks rectums.

Hopefully, my cumulative will be boosted
after my next semester.

Then i will wreck rectums.

I think i should just do FAFSA.
hopefully i'll get SOMETHING from that.

A life well lived

JV — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:31:05 +0000

View more photos at Flickr / aminus3 / VFXY

Photoshoot: Cote Des Neiges Cemetery Series

DAVE ID — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:00:46 +0000

Until Labour Day, the Cote Des Neiges Cemetery was left almost abandoned by the unionised team of caretakers. So on the very last day where the doors were opened I went in and took as many pictures I could until; of course, security escorted me outside the cemetery.

Starting next Monday, I'll have another series called The Meditating Man. Keep Clicking.

Photos for the Week

DAVE ID — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:00:44 +0000

Just a jumble of pictures from all over the place. A Montreal based group from Flickr asked me to join them which was cool.

This picture is my favorite from this week (in a little reduced version).

Here they are:

Photoshoot: Île de la Visitation - Moulin Sault-au-Récollet

DAVE ID — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:00:29 +0000

Two weeks ago I went l’Ile de la Visitation, a old, very old part of Montreal that was used by the founders for milling and there is of course a very old mill there. This mill is an archaeological ruin that anyone can visit so I took some picture… over a hundred actually but only a very few turned out good, or to my liking.

Photography: A Drunkm0nk Repost

DAVE ID — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:34:53 +0000

On my first and now defunct photoblog I had posted some shots I had taken of Drunkm0nk. He's a friend from work who practices Parkour and Free Running and really good at it and last summer I took some pictures of him during a practice session with my dipshit point and shoot Nikon Coolpix camera, not the best camera for high velocity action such as Parkour. I hope to one day get to get some shooting done with my new camera, a more able camera for this type of hyper-kenetic activity.

But despite my limited equipment, my pictures turned out well enough after some processing to get some good comments from renowned French photographer Jean Michel Berts. Damn I wish I had taken screen-shots of that, it had really given me encouragement.

Here are the links to the series I reposted on my new photoblog, which I still don't like - but I think it's more that I'm never quite satisfied with my work.

I'm currently processing a series I did on an archaeological site of one of the very first Hydro-Electric dams in Québec. I hope the pictures turn out well and I'll post about it here soon.

A Glitch in The Matrix or how CloverField killed my Blog

DAVE ID — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:11:38 +0000

How did I get here?

Almost a month ago, I started posting about the secret J.J.Abrams movie project called Cloverfield. Well the traffic just started pouring in. So much traffic that my web host pulled the plug on my site. They sell me 400 GIGABITES of bandwidth per month, but I cannot exceed 4.5% CPU usage. What's the fucking point? That's like building a 16 lane highway and only allowing 3 or 4 cars to use it. Made no fucking sense to me

So I decided to screw playing for my domain name and go back to free hosting plans. I tried to export my old site to the new one but myriad of technical issues and political issues got in the way so I opted, in my impatience, to chuck it all and start over. Tabula Raza. So here it begins… Darkly Dreaming David is born…

You can add me to your feeds,

My Photoblog is now on Aminus3.com at
http://postcardsfromtheend.aminus3.com

I also opened a Flickr account, viewable at this address:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave1618/

I'll be updating and tweaking this new blog for the time being and getting back to posting real soon.

Dave Id.